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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.161
People
Max Weber, American (Bialystok Russia 1881 - 1961 Great Neck, NY)
Title
Seated Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1917
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308826

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tan wove paper mounted on buff card
Dimensions
24.4 x 15.5 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
mount: 26.7 x 17.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Max Weber '17
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper: No. 67
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper: No. R206 / 380
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper: No. R202 / 386
  • exhibition label: 1963-1964, removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper: [5]21.63 [label is torn]
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper: Work was owned by the artist at the time.
  • exhibition label: 1963-1964, removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: no. 521.63

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.161
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 121
  • Una E. Johnson, 20th Century Drawings, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1964), reproduced, pl. 53
  • First comprehensive retrospective exhibition in the West of oils, gouaches, pastels, drawings, and graphic works by Max Weber, exh. cat., University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA, 1968), no. 66, reproduced p. 13
  • Alfred Werner, Max Weber, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1975), reproduced, pl. 71
  • Percy North, Max Weber: The Cubist Decade, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1991), no. 67, reproduced p. 81

Exhibition History

  • Pioneers of Modern Art in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 04/02/1946 - 05/12/1946
  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • Max Weber Retrospective Exhibition, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 02/06/1968 - 03/03/1968; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 04/19/1968 - 05/19/1968; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 05/28/1968 - 06/25/1968; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, 07/05/1968 - 08/18/1968
  • Max Weber: The Cubist Decade 1910 - 1920, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 12/10/1991 - 02/09/1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 03/08/1992 - 05/03/1992; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 05/31/1992 - 08/09/1992; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 09/12/1992 - 10/25/1992; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 11/13/1992 - 01/10/1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/18/1993 - 04/25/1993

Verification Level

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